Unknown sitter ('Floor tile with an image of a king or queen')
Art Fund Popular Portraits Collection. Photo: © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Unknown sitter ('Floor tile with an image of a king or queen')
by Unknown artist
earthenware floor tile, lead-glazed, 14th century
4 1/2 in. x 4 1/2 in. (115 mm x 113 mm) overall
Purchased with help from the Art Fund, 2017
Reference Collection
NPG D48194
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Tiles such as this were common in churches and high status houses from the thirteenth century to the middle of the sixteenth century. They are generic representations of monarchy rather than depictions of specific kings or queens. Such images became less common with the emergence of oil painting, and the rise in the representation of individuals, in the 1500s.
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